Lesbian Literature


The Price of Salt
Stone Butch Blues
Carmilla
Tipping the Velvet
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Fingersmith
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Notes of a Crocodile
The Well of Loneliness
Orlando
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Nightwood
Annie on My Mind
Last Words from Montmartre
Arrows Through Archer by Nash SummersBlank Spaces by Cass LennoxBlock and Strike by Kelly   JensenYou Are Not Me by Leta BlakeJust Drive by L.A. Witt
2017 Rainbow Awards
44 books — 12 voters
The Apparitional Lesbian by Terry CastleThe Safe Sea of Women by Bonnie ZimmermanChloe Plus Olivia by Lillian FadermanLesbian Texts and Contexts by Karla JaySurpassing the Love of Men by Lillian Faderman
Lesbian Literary Criticism
51 books — 6 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Female Man by Joanna RussThe Demeter Flower by Rochelle SingerPatience & Sarah by Isabel MillerRubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
Lesbian Feminist Fiction
106 books — 22 voters

Sister Outsider by Audre LordeIf You Could Be Mine by Sara FarizanMy Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi NagataUnder the Udala Trees by Chinelo OkparantaZami by Audre Lorde
Books by Lesbians of Colour
299 books — 60 voters

Nicole Brossard
To write, for a lesbian, is to learn to take down the patriarchal posters in her room. It means learning to live with bare walls for a while. It means learning how not to be afraid of the ghosts which assume the color of the bare wall.
Nicole Brossard, The Aerial Letter

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